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'In Braiding the Voices, Peter Steele brings to bear a lifetime of reading, writing, and teaching prose and poetry. With gusto and focus, these essays concert poets and poems of different tempers and aspirations. They are by Gwen Harwood, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Vincent Buckley and, further afield, Fleur Adcock, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Deborah Randall, Ben Belitt, Norman MacCaig, R.S. Thomas, P.J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The writing of some of his own poems is also addressed. Characteristically, Steele refers copiously also to much else. The book investigates some of the ways in which individual poets have found what they most wanted to say, and how their art takes its place in the general conversation of humanity itself. Applauding the dexterity and the variety with which this feat is carried off by the poets, Steele's distinctive prose is deliberately fashioned to be as hospitable to insight as possible' (Bookseller website www.readings.com.au/).
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Transformations
2013
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— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 57 no. 4 2013; (p. 109-110)
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What I’m Reading
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013; -
'A Tumbledom of Things'
2012
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 175-179.)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
Peter Steele : Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry
2012
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— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 7 no. 2012;
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
The Celebrant
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 345 2012; (p. 23-24)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism
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Peter Steele's Hymns in Sickness
2012
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— Appears in: Eureka Street , 15 June vol. 22 no. 11 2012; (p. 6-9)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
Poetic Insights
2012
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 July 2012; (p. 29)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
Last Words of a Language Artist at Work and at Play
2012
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 August 2012; (p. 21)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
The Celebrant
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 345 2012; (p. 23-24)
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
Peter Steele : Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 7 no. 2012;
— Review of Braiding the Voices : Essays in Poetry 2012 selected work criticism -
What I’m Reading
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2013;